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The Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) can be solved efficiently with variants of the DPLL algorithm. For industrial SAT problems, DPLL with conflict analysis dependent dynamic decision heuristics has proved to be particularly efficient,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Raihan H. Kibria

We study -- within the framework of propositional proof complexity -- the problem of certifying unsatisfiability of CNF formulas under the promise that any satisfiable formula has many satisfying assignments, where ``many'' stands for an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-04-19 Nachum Dershowitz , Iddo Tzameret

This paper considers parallel machine scheduling with incompatibilities between jobs. The jobs form a graph and no two jobs connected by an edge are allowed to be assigned to the same machine. In particular, we study the case where the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Klaus Jansen , Alexandra Lassota , Marten Maack , Tytus Pikies

Boolean satisfiability is a propositional logic problem of interest in multiple fields, e.g., physics, mathematics, and computer science. Beyond a field of research, instances of the SAT problem, as it is known, require efficient solution…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-11-13 S. R. B. Bearden , Y. R. Pei , M. Di Ventra

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a generalization of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) that includes approximation variants of satisfiability and graph coloring problems. Barto [LICS '19] has shown that a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Kristina Asimi , Libor Barto

Generating diverse solutions to the Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is a hard computational problem with practical applications for testing and functional verification of software and hardware designs. We explore the way to generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Karlis Freivalds , Sergejs Kozlovics

Propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers, which typically operate using conjunctive normal form (CNF), have been successfully applied in many domains. However, in some application areas such as circuit verification, bounded model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Tero Laitinen , Tommi Junttila , Ilkka Niemelä

We study the parameterized problem of satisfying ``almost all'' constraints of a given formula $F$ over a fixed, finite Boolean constraint language $\Gamma$, with or without weights. More precisely, for each finite Boolean constraint…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Eun Jung Kim , Stefan Kratsch , Marcin Pilipczuk , Magnus Wahlström

Feature extraction is a fundamental task in the application of machine learning methods to SAT solving. It is used in algorithm selection and configuration for solver portfolios and satisfiability classification. Many approaches have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Benjamin Provan-Bessell , Marco Dalla , Andrea Visentin , Barry O'Sullivan

Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) is a well-known optimization pro- blem, with several practical applications. The most widely known MAXS AT algorithms are ineffective at solving hard problems instances from practical application domains.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-12-10 Joao Marques-Silva , Jordi Planes

Computing diverse solutions for a given problem, in particular evolutionary diversity optimisation (EDO), is a hot research topic in the evolutionary computation community. This paper studies the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Adel Nikfarjam , Ralf Rothenberger , Frank Neumann , Tobias Friedrich

The Circuit Satisfiability (CSAT) problem, a variant of the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem, plays a critical role in integrated circuit design and verification. However, existing SAT solvers, optimized for Conjunctive Normal Form…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhengyuan Shi , Tiebing Tang , Jiaying Zhu , Sadaf Khan , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Zhufei Chu , Qiang Xu

The one of the most interesting problem of discrete mathematics is the SAT (satisfiability) problem. Good way in SAT solver developing is to transform the SAT problem to the problem of continuous search of global minimums of the functional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-13 R. T. Faizullin , I. G. Khnykin , V. I. Dylkeyt

To enumerate 3-manifold triangulations with a given property, one typically begins with a set of potential face pairing graphs (also known as dual 1-skeletons), and then attempts to flesh each graph out into full triangulations using an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Benjamin A. Burton , William Pettersson

We investigate the existence of approximation algorithms for maximization of submodular functions, that run in fixed parameter tractable (FPT) time. Given a non-decreasing submodular set function $v: 2^X \to \mathbb{R}$ the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Piotr Skowron

We prove several decidability and undecidability results for the satisfiability and validity problems for languages that can express solutions to word equations with length constraints. The atomic formulas over this language are equality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Vijay Ganesh , Mia Minnes , Armando Solar-Lezama , Martin Rinard

Satisfiability of boolean formulae (SAT) has been a topic of research in logic and computer science for a long time. In this paper we are interested in understanding the structure of satisfiable and unsatisfiable sentences. In previous work…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Vaibhav Karve , Anil N. Hirani

The Boolean Satisfiability Problem is perhaps one of the most well-known problems in theoretical computer science. On the one hand, it is proven to be NP-complete, which means that it is generally considered hard to solve. On the other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Flora Rädiker

In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wenxia Guo , Jin Wang , Majun He , Xiaoqin Ren , Wenhong Tian , Qingxian Wang

Fixed parameter tractable (FPT) algorithms run in time f(p(x)) poly(|x|), where f is an arbitrary function of some parameter p of the input x and poly is some polynomial function. Treewidth, branchwidth, cliquewidth, NLC-width, rankwidth,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Jakub Marecek